Wednesday, December 16, 2015

A bit more work done on the watchtower. Firstly a couple of chaps to keep a look out (modified Timpo Toyway heroic romans)

Also needed a couple of braziers for signal fires. I made these from a plastic lego wheel with the rim removed and the spokes turned up - a little cotton wool with PVA in the centre; all on a wire support

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Cut down Playmobil castle parts form the base part of the tower, with the top part made from card and foamboard. A spare roof being just right tops its off. I'm happy with the look of it so have added the supports for the walkway....

Saturday, March 28, 2015

I've been busy from the middle of this week working on the pallisade sections. I did two curved sections - a split 45 turn... here is one of them in place...

Then did a setup of all the sections - fits nicely into the corner of the gaming table ....

next went on to do the gates - open ....

and of course closed ....

a simple scheme for the gates, they have blocks attacked with a little weight to hold them up..

Another layout this time across the table....

The pallisades could just about be used for a roman camp, so this morning I built two fighting platforms (small towers), here is a shot of one from the rear, it is made so its base has a step up and fits over the rear of the pallisade section...

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

A break from the 'story-line'; I've started a modelling project to build a pallisade to represent the enclosure of a village, or if suitably placed on a hill section part of a hill-fort. The aim is to have it in the corner or at the back of the table.

I bought a Timpo log fort off Ebay a while back and have spent some time trying to find the best way to use the pieces. After a bit of fiddling at the weekend I came up with a scheme.

The original wall section, a bit too high for a figure and for the scale of my table...

So cut down and and reworked to a lower height, the remainder to be trimmed to be used for the back of the 'step-up' for figures...

The first two trial straight sections ...

The original fort gateway has been reworked, quite a bit to do on it to finish (some gates etc..)

The Timpo plastic fort wall sections bend so I can easily (?) make some curved sections - next thing to try ....

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

A patrol from Legio X with some auxilaries has been on routine patrol to the north of the legionary fortress in the old tribal territory of the Nasturces; they are on the return leg of their journey....